An air craft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines failed to land in Tribhuban International Airport in Nepal on Friday afternoon as it had a throttle stagger and returned to Dhaka.
Throttle-stagger is a maintenance controller that maintains the speed of a craft that plays a vital role in landing and taking off.
After the national flag carrier returned to Dhaka it again flew for Kathmandu after 18 hours of its scheduled time, sources said.
Over the last ten days the A310-300 S2-ADK aircraft of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines has faced at least three technical glitch.
On the evening of July 28 a Biman flight of BG-701 flew to Nepal but when it landed four of its left-side tyres exploded, sources informed.
Even though the A310-300 S2-ADK had a schedule to return to Dhaka it could not do so. The Biman authorities had to send another aircraft to Nepal to carry back the Dhaka-bound passengers.
On Wednesday afternoon the A310-300 S2-ADK was scheduled to leave for Kathmandu but it could not take off due to technical glitch. It went to Nepal on Thursday morning.
“I have heard about frequent problems on the Dhaka-Kathmandu route and we might have to think about the A310-300 S2-ADK,” AM Mosaddique Ahmed, acting chief executive officer of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
He said he had no technical know-how but from a customer’s point of view it is untolerable.
On the evening of July 28 when the Biman flight BG-701 was about to land the wheels on the left of the carrier might not be working in a balanced way and that is why the tyres blasted, a senior official of the engineering win informed.
What was most frightening the air craft was not stopped on the runway as its wheels caught fire and even the control tower watched the smoke billowing from the plane. Later they sent fire service personnel to take care of it.
The Biman at once sent a 737 Boeing from Dhaka as next day was Eid-ul-Fitr and carred their inbound passengers.
Officials of Biman however claimed that nothing had happened and they also said it was not unusual at all. Later the Biman formed an inquiry committee headed by Mehedi Hasan.
Ten days have already passed but the committee is yet to come to any conclusion.
“As most of the members of the inquiry committee are pilots they are unnecessary delaying the investigation and if they even submit any report it will not be impartial,” a senior official of engineering wing said requesting anonymity.
Debabrata Banik, Chief Engineer of the Biman on Thursday shrugged the allegation off: All these problems are very minor.
He said: “We have formed a probe committee and after its report is submitted the Biman will take action if anybody is found guilty.
